Gastric malignancy: Ten year experience at a community teaching hospital
β Scribed by Robert P. Ruggiero; Sharon Fischer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
A tenβyear review of gastric malignancy was undertaken and several factors examined. The degree of organ involvement played a significant role in determination of survival. Surgical resection, either palliative or curative, was associated with a more favorable shortβterm survival and bypass alone appeared to add nothing to patient survival time. The general lack of symptoms in early gastric cancer appears to be a major determinant of the advanced state of malignancy in these patients. Early screening may represent a partial solution to this dilemma.
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